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...question the request from Novotny: "I trusted those people. As it turned out, I was a patsy." Technically, Wilson did not break the law when he paid for the bugging. Texas has no law against eavesdropping, and the incident took place before passage of the 1968 federal Omnibus Crime...
...Title IV from the bill feel that the present chaotic mess is preferable to what we have in the bill." Mills' either-or proposition was enough to sway borderline Congressmen. By a vote of 234-187 the House voted down a motion to scratch Title IV from the omnibus bill, then approved it entirely, 288-132. The bill will now go before the Senate for its consideration...
...under his tweed jacket, sipping sherry with undergraduates. In those days, he was still the hero of American academics, the man who had fought the right wing demon and defeated him. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences commended him in an unusual resolution, and he was featured on an Omnibus program. His door was still open to the press, which heaped him with praise...
After years of confusion over the legalities of electronic eavesdropping, Congress attempted to set rules in the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1968. Law-enforcement agencies were permitted to wiretap in ordinary criminal cases, provided they first obtained a court-approved warrant. Under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, such warrants require "probable cause"-proof that officials are probing with specific evidence of a crime, not just trying to trap possible wrongdoers. The 1968 law, though, did not limit the President's power "to obtain foreign intelligence information deemed essential to the security of the United States...
...advice. An example of her personal astuteness was the addition to her collection of Anders Zorn (painter and paintings), whom she met in 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Mrs. Gardner was walking through the exhibit when she saw a painting that she liked, The Omnibus, she asked a man in the gallery who had done it; it was the artist himself, Anders Zorn. She bought the picture of passengers in a bus, and from there started another of her artist friendships...